Affectionately Nitpicking Pages and Screens with Equal Enthusiasm
Watching My Fair Lady for the first time as an adult, I admit I’m impressed with this film on all accounts. What stands out the most is the complicated relationship between Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins, and how they both develop throughout the course of the film. Naturally, I went on to do some …
One of the best things about the first two Harry Potter films is how closely the actors match our imagination of them from the books. From Harry’s eyes, which exude a haunting quality, to Hermione’s bushy hair, McGonagall’s stern frown, and Dumbledore’s grand silver beard — the casting feels right. The first film begins with …
Well, now that the MCU has revealed that they’re about to… do whatever they’re planning to do with Steve Rogers, it’s a good time as any to admit that Steve Rogers’ ending in Endgame — time-travelling back to the past and retiring with Peggy and all — managed to make us all blue-screen, and not …
It is about time we came up with a list of tropes that romance fantasy dramas need to move on from, isn’t it? Given how many of those dramas we have gone through and how many have been produced in recent years. Gosh, I can’t even keep up with the speed at which dramas come …
Have you ever seen a romantic drama where whenever the lead couple start cuddling, you just start thinking about the other characters instead? Yes, that’s me and Love Between Fairy and Devil. Don’t get me wrong, I like Orchid and Dongfang – to… some extent. But with the drama’s tendency to force-feed its audience sugar, …
Doctors is a K-drama from 1997. You would think that a drama this old is bound to be cringy and unnecessary. There are definitely melodramatic factors about it that we can live without nowadays. But watching it now, I would say that this drama still thrives, mostly due to the bold choices it made in …
Well… yes, there is another Beauty and the Beast film that was not produced by Disney: La Belle et la Bête (2014), starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel. No talking clocks or teacups there, but we get little puppies with eyes like those Ty stuffed animals’.
*WARNING: this post is Humor-Free. Let’s face it, it is not by accident that most, if not all, of Studio Ghibli’s productions are critically acclaimed, and Hayao Miyazaki is credited as the leading film director in feminism among many other things. Over the years, the studio has given us diverse female leads with unique stories …